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Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation and The Presidential Coalition have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Justices to reverse three lower court decisions blocking the Trump Administration's efforts to end former President Barack Obama's DACA immigration order. Our brief makes three main arguments: (1) The Trump Administration's decision to end DACA is not subject to judicial review; (2) the decision to end DACA was legal; and (3) DACA was unlawful from its inception, and even if DACA is not unlawful, the Trump Administration's decision to end DACA is lawful. The Supreme Court is slated to hear argument in the case later this year or early next year with a decision expected by the end of June 2020.

”The Trump administration's appeal is backed by ‘friend of the court’ filings from the Republican National Committee, several Republican-controlled states and such conservative organizations as Citizens United.”

Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation joined forces with several other non-profit organizations in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn a recent U.S. District Court decision that undercuts the free speech and donor privacy rights of non-profit organizations that undertake independent expenditures in connection with Federal elections.

Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation joined forces with other conservative groups, urging the Supreme Court to lift a lower court injunction that prohibits the Commerce Department from including a U.S. citizenship question in the 2020 census. Our brief contends that distinguishing between U.S. citizens and those persons in the country who are not citizens is an important consideration in fulfilling the main purpose of the decennial census, which is to determine the proper apportionment of U.S. House of Representatives seats among the states. It closes with an impactful discussion of how opposition to the citizenship question is being driven by global elitists, deeply resentful of the election of Donald Trump in 2016, with a goal of skewing U.S. House of Representatives apportionment in favor of deeply blue states, as well as the accompanying allocation of electoral college votes in presidential elections, order to secure and retain political power in future elections. The brief concludes:

Globalization may be sought by many of our nation’s elites, but it is not the formula adopted by the framers. Our Constitution’s Preamble reminds us that it was “We the people”
who united together to establish the Constitution in order to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” – not the act of citizens of the world to create a global community. James Madison
cautioned us in Federalist 52 that it was absolutely “essential to liberty” to keep the “intimate” connection between the House of Representatives and American people, which
requires distinguishing between those who are citizens members of the polity and those who are not.

Notice is hereby given that Citizens United Foundation is offering a $50,000 reward in exchange for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person who perpetrated an assault and battery on Hayden Williams, during the afternoon of February 19, 2019. This reward has been made possible through the generosity of an anonymous donor.

Any person having information related to this crime is requested to contact Citizens United Foundation at the following email address: BerkeleyThugReward@citizensunited.org. In the email, please provide contact information and details of the information in your possession, including relevant facts. Any information provided will be promptly forwarded to the UC Berkeley Police Department.

The terms of this reward are as follows:

The information given that leads to a determination of the identity, the apprehension and conviction of the person who committed the assault and battery must be given subsequent to the first publication of this Reward Notice and prior to the arrest of the perpetrator of the crime.

The information given must actually be used to assist in the identification, apprehension or conviction the perpetrator of the crime. Cumulative information provided that is already in the possession of law enforcement shall not qualify for the reward.

The total payment of any reward shall not exceed $50,000, and may be apportioned among multiple claimants. No claim shall be paid prior to conviction of the perpetrator unless the Citizens United Foundation President makes a finding of impossibility of conviction due to the death or incapacity of the person responsible for the crime.

The following are not eligible for the reward: perpetrator of the crime, law enforcement personnel or government officials when acting in the performance of their official duties.

The determination of eligibility for the reward, and any apportionment thereof among multiple claimants, shall be determined by the Citizens United Foundation President, in his sole discretion. Such determination shall be final and not subject to any appeal.

Claimants are required to provide appropriate tax reporting information. Failure to provide such information shall disqualify the claimant from the reward or any portion thereof.

Any claims for the reward funds must be filed in writing no later than March 29th, 2019, with Citizens United Foundation, Attention: Reward Claim, 1006 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Washington, DC. 20003. For further information call 202-547-5420.

On Thursday, the 116th Congress began and San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives once again. Hopefully, she won’t revert to her old tricks by passing bills so the rest of us can find out what’s in them.

As the president of Citizens United, I know that every two years around this time the left ramps up its wrongheaded quest to gut the First Amendment and attack the landmark “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision that protects robust free speech rights for all of the American people. And this year is no exception, as House Democrats prepare to unveil H.R. 1 today.

A recent column in The New York Times entitled “After Citizens United, a Vicious Cycle of Corruption,” opens by stating, “In the eight years since it was decided, Citizens United has unleashed a wave of campaign spending that by any reasonable standard is extraordinarily corrupt.” An intriguing opening perhaps, but the entire opinion piece contains no evidence of corruption whatsoever. Liberals just can’t come to grips with the fact that spending a lot of money to participate in the political process doesn’t equal corruption.

Mitt Romney is just like Hillary Clinton. Six years later, he’s still upset that he’s not president. So, instead of coming to Washington as a problem solver like he campaigned, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney chose to start his tenure as Utah’s junior United States Senator as part of the problem.

In the midst of a government shutdown over securing our border, Romney chose to side with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi by attacking President Donald Trump in an op-ed in The Washington Post instead of offering his opinion about how to solve our illegal immigration crisis and end the shutdown. Oh Mitt, why am I not surprised? This behavior is extremely disappointing coming from someone who was the Republican nominee for President in 2012. Romney should be helping President Trump, not trying out for CNN’s next anti-Trump Republican talking head.

First of all, why did Senator Romney choose the Washington Post for his op-ed? Why not choose a paper in Utah, the state that he represents? It’s because Romney is a swamp creature more concerned about raising his own national profile than representing the people of Utah.